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Roger Claessens (BE, º1949)

United cemetry battlefield Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Autodidact, videomaker and visual artist. He worked at the glass-ovens in Mol for twenty years. Today he makes video’s and artprojects with homeless and unemployed people and migrants, often in collaboration with schools. He uses everyday consumption materials for his work, is against intellectualism: he wants to [...] Read More

Frank F. Castelyns (BE, º1942 †2017)

Collection Verbeke Foundation Frank F. Castelyns studied at the Academy of fine arts Antwerp. For decennia already he collects discarded objects. Thus he builds small scenes that may or may not refer to actual events. His collection is piled up in various places in Antwerp. It moves piece by piece to a construction of 7 [...] Read More

Ad van Buuren (NL, º1951 †2014)

Geluidsinstallaties Kinetic installations, 1993-2014 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation The aim of Ad van Buuren’s installations is to generate sequences of haphazard, unpredictable and chaotic sounds. Tones are evoked by artificial neural networks comprising circuits with relays. The work of these analogue circuits is programmed to resemble the activity of neurones in a human brain. [...] Read More

Heath Bunting (UK, º1966)

Natural Reality SuperWeed kit 1.0 SuperWeed Kit 1.0 is a lowtech DIY kit capable of producing a genetically mutant superweed, designed to attack corporate monoculture. SuperWeed kit 1.0 contains a mixture of naturally occuring and genetically mutated (GM) Brassica seeds (Oilseed Rape, Wild Radish, Yellow Mustard, Shepard’s Purse). If these seeds are allowed to germinate [...] Read More

Sjoerd Buisman (NL,º1948)  

“Just like a traditional painter or sculptor explores the properties of paint and stone, I work with the possibilities of plants and explore their properties.” Website: Sjoerd Buisman Read More

Peter Buggenhout (BE, º1963)

Eskimo Blues I prepared cow stomach over a core of debris, 1999 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Read More

Berlinde De Bruyckere (BE, º1964)

Kooi (Cage) Sculpture, 1989 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation In the beginning of her career Berlinde De Bruyckere made cages. The inner need to make the cages is also still present in her current work. The work is in fact figurative, even if it might seem to be rational, abstract and minimalist. In that time [...] Read More

Andrea Branzi (IT, º1938)

Grande Vaso 1999 Collection of the Verbeke Foundation Since 1999 the giant vase, designed by the architect Andrea Branzi, was standing  in the courtyard of the Design Museum in Ghent. The vase would be destroyed, because the museum now had other priorities and the renovation would be too expensive. Geert Verbeke was reading the news [...] Read More

Kevin van Braak (NL, º1975)

Kevin van Braak’s work is set around politically and ideologically problematic issues. In recent years, he turned his attention to the visibility and invisibility of the display of power in buildings, people, location, and artifacts and how our historical consciousness functions in relation to the history behind it. He is particularly interested in reproducing, restoring [...] Read More

Matthijs Bosman (NL, º1976)

Within the framework of the investigation ‘archive for the future’ Mathhijs Bosman got the command to think about his legacy, with as a result this monument. In ‘Archive for the future’ the bkkc together with the Verbeke Foundation examined the issues around the conservation and management of oeuvres of contemporary artists. The project consisted of [...] Read More

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